Nagios/NSCA/Munin Integration

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jørgen Birkhaug
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios/NSCA/Munin Integration
> 
> Munin (third party monitoring software) is successfully sending alerts
> to nagios.cmd via NSCA, but I'm still (after having read just about
> everything about volatile services that I can find) having problems
> getting the Nagios Daemon to react upon passive service alerts written
> to nagios.cmd by NSCA.
> 
> nagios.cmd might contain:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> EXTERNAL COMMAND:
> PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;kang.os.ergo.no;df;2;Filesystem usage (in
> %):CRITICALs: /mnt/media is 100.00 (outside range [:98]).
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> shortly followed by message stating that the service 'df' could not be
> found by Nagios.
> 
> Sorry for yet again bringing up syntax questions regarding passive
> alerts, but how do I correctly define a service that will pick up
> alerts written to nagios.cmd?
> 
> My services.cfg contains:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> define service {
>         use                             generic-service
>         name                          munin
>         register                        0
>         service_description       munin_alert
>         is_volatile                     1
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         active_checks_enabled   0
>         passive_checks_enabled 1
>         max_check_attempts      1
>         normal_check_interval     1
>         retry_check_interval        1
>         check_period                  none
>         notification_interval          31536000
> }
> 
> define service {
>         use                             munin
>         host_name                   host
>         service_description       df
>         register                        1
> }

Is this your actual service definition or a munged one? host-name above should be 'kang.os.ergo.no', not 'host'.

--
Marc



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